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NJEI'ERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C4 UNirn STATES Partnr trice,

OALEB H. GRIFFIN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO LEONARD F. VISE, OF SAME PLAGE.

DRESS-MAKERS CHART.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,527, dated June 8, 1880.

Application lcd January 30, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OALEB H. GRIFFIN, of Boston, in the county of Suifolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dress-Makers7 Charts,

of which the following is a specitication.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, simple, convenient, and durable device to be used in connection with the ordinary 1o tape-measure in taking the dimensions of the various portions of the human body above the waist by actual measurement for the production of a pattern for use in cutting out garments 5 and it consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the several parts in outline or form, and providing such parts with certain scales, lines, figures, divisions, and inches, or proportionate parts thereof, as hereinafter more fully described and set forth.

The accompanying drawing shows a perspective view of my invention.

A represents the body of the chart, having an irregular curved opening or slot, B, of the peculiar form shown, its convex edge portion O being provided with a front arm size and neck77 scale, graduatedinto inches and proportionate parts thereof, and indicated by igures from 1 to 10, inclusive, as shown, the first number or ligure, l, being placed one inch and a half from the short curved end ot' the opening nearest the top of the drawing, the lower pointed end being used to draw lines to form the darts, and the other portions of the curved opening for drawing the various curved lines employed in cutting dresses, garments, Ste., as heretofore employed, taken with the curve or concave outer edge'marked V under the arm. All curved lines required are so combined and arranged with the square orright 4o angle edges E and F, so as to save time and labor in turning and placing the device to draw the various lines in thepattern with that nicety or precision required to form a perfect-fitting waist or other portion ofthe garment without retting, as heretofore required, wherein the drafting devices now in use are employed.

At the top right hand, near outer straight edge or line, will be seen the front arm scale, consisting of two scales placed equidistantly one inch each side of the lille marked X. 5o These scales consist of seventeen lines each, and are marked, respectively, 17 to 49, inclusive, omitting the alternate numbers.

The measurements by this double scale commence at the center line, (marked X,) one inch, respectively, from the lowest number on each scale.

, At the top left hand, near the corner, will be seen the back neck 7 scale, and consists of seventeen lines, which are marked with figures 6o from 17 to 49, inclusive, omitting the alternate numbers. The spaces between the lines in this and the preceding double scale are oneeighth inch wide. l

At the left-hand edge of the device, which 6 5 is formed on a straight line at a right angle to the line of the top or shorter side, will be seen front neck scale, and consists of thirty-four lines, half being short lilies. The longer lines are marked with igures from 17 to 49, inclu- 7o sive, omitting the alternate numbers, the spaces between the lines being one-eighth of an inch wide. This scale and the two previous ones are marked, also, with figures from 4 to 12, inclusive, as shown. Below this scale, upon the same line or extended edge, will be seen the back and front waist scale, consisting of thirty-two lines, marked with figures from 16 to 46, inclusive, omittingthe alternate lines and alternate numbers, the spaces between the 8o lines being three-sixteenths of an inch, and is used to determine the relative size to be given to that portion or part of the garment which is at the front and at the back ofthe side seam at the waist. 8 5

Gommencing at the lower corner or point of the device, the remaining edge or outline, marked Bias-cutter,77 is formed on an angle of forty-live degrees with the last named or de? scribed vertical edge, and extending upward 9o on a straightline to the lower point of the concave edge, marked V under the arm. This acute-angle edge is marked with inches and divisions and figures from 1 to 16, inclusive, as usual, and is designed to facilitate the cutting of cloth on the bias. The desired width of the ruffle or fold is measured and marked on the cloth, then the longest straight edge of the device or chart is placed on the cloth in a line parallel either with the Warp or weft of the same. The graduated lines on the biascutter show the exact gage of the desired Width of the ruiile.

Inwardly from the tWo straight right-angle edges I mark the usual inches and subdivisions, with the figures denoting the inches, as heretofore employed upon rules, squares, and the like measuring devices.

This device or chart, with all its marks, lilies, and gures, may be drawn upon stone, then lithographed upon sheets of paper of the desired size, or upon pasteboard, card-board, or other desired material, which may be formed or cut to the outline shown, then the edges bound with sheet metal, as heretofore employed for shoe-patterns. By this means I am enabled to produce a very superior device or chart at little expense, which is very lightand easily placed in the desired position for drafting a pattern, an d is free from many objections found in squares constructed in wholeor-part of wood and intended for similar purposes.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is l 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a

dress-inakers chart consisting of the device shown, having the irregular curved opening fBZ its convex portion C being graduated and marked Front arm size and neck, and its outer edge E being provided with the scales marked Front arm size and Back neck, and the right-angle edge F heilig provided With the scales marked Front neck and Back and front Waist, and the edge G being graduated and l'narked Bias-cutter and formed on an angle of forty-tive degrees with the edge F, and the edge H being' formed slightly concave, and marked V under the arm, all being marked with figures and graduated as shown and described, as and for thepurposes set forth.

2. In a dress-makers chart, a form consisting ol" two straight right-angle edges and an edge formed at an angle of fortylive degrees, and an edge, slightly concave, extending from the latter to one of the former, so as to complete the outline shown, and having an irregular curved opening, substantially as dcscribed, and for the purposes set forth.

CALEB H. GRIFFIN, Titnessesz SYLVENUs WALKER, 7. M. PARKER. 

